andrajo
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish andrajo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɐ̃ˈdɾa.ʒu/
- Hyphenation: an‧dra‧jo
Noun
andrajo m (plural andrajos)
- rag
- Synonym: trapo
Related terms
- andrajoso
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain. Federico Corriente considers the Andalusian Arabic حَطْرَجْ (ḥaṭraj, “foolish”) that appears in Vocabulista in Arabico and that comes from the known root ه ت ر (h-t-r) (the same as مُهْتَر (muhtar, “disordered in his intellect”) in Lane’s lexicon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anˈdɾaxo/ [ãn̪ˈd̪ɾa.xo]
- Rhymes: -axo
- Syllabification: an‧dra‧jo
Noun
andrajo m (plural andrajos)
- rags (as clothes)
Derived terms
- andrajoso
References
- Federico CORRIENTE; reflejos iberorromances del andalusí {ḥṭr}; in Al-Andalus Magreb nº 01 (1993).
- “هتر” in Edward William LANE; Arabic-English Lexicon; Williams & Norgate: London: 1863.
Further reading
- “andrajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014